Quotes about you

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.

Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same.

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don't do it to yourself.

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.

You can't have a healthy society unless you have healthy companies that are making a profit, that are employing people and that are growing.

What I'll say is that Cuban-Americans don't have to deal with the same immigration issues as other nationalities because of the 'wet feet, dry feet' policy. For Cubans, one year after you touch United States territory, you can become a legal resident.

You see these casting directors' lists of characters, and they're all boxed in. Twenties is the hot girlfriend, thirties you can still be hot but moving swiftly to hot mum. Forties, you're the legal person in a pantsuit. Then, once you reach your fifties, you're positively elderly.

It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.

And understandably so, that when you're in legal jeopardy, you really cannot put yourself in a position to open yourself up to the media.

I mean you might say he had a travelling post office, but also Barney was very, very active. He was a legal officer for the NAACP and they had a lot of problems after Pease.

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well.

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.

When you look at the big issues post-9/11 in the United States, whether it's water boarding, warantless wire tapping, surveillance, Gitmo, black sites rendition, all of those have been legal. Nobody has gone to jail for those programs.

But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.

There are obviously legal restrictions on what you can do on TV in the States, as there are everywhere.

When you do a studio picture, all the paperwork and legal stuff is already taken care of!

I feel like there was justice. It was served through the legal system you know. Everything that I endured. It was all worth it.

Part of doing mash-ups is getting the legal rights to use the songs. If you're going to do a mash-up with five songs, you should probably find 10 songs, because you're only going to get half of them cleared. It's a real collaborative effort.

Warren Buffett has shown you can be very, very successful without being rapacious, while still being honest, without engaging in constant legal battles.

If you spend five minutes with me or watch me try to balance my checkbook, you can only imagine the disaster I would make of anyone's legal issues.

There should be a path to earned legal status for those that are here. Not - not amnesty - earned legal status, which means you pay a fine and do many things over an extended period of time.

People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.

To have a .cn domain, you have to be a registered business. You have to prove your site is legal.

What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something.

There's been so much corruption and so much cronyism in the taxi industry and so much regulatory capture, that if you ask for permission upfront for something that's already legal, you'll never get it.

Going through a long legal battle is not what you sign up for as a fighter.

When you file an amicus brief, and you represent a state, the court reads your brief. It is a powerful position to make the legal assault from.

I mentioned it yesterday: I'm one of these people that - I don't - like, on the abortion issue, it's not something that - I'm very uncomfortable talking about it. I'm not gonna kid you. It's a very uncomfortable thing. I think that it's a legal issue. Definitely a legal issue. It's been decided upon by our Supreme Court.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

We want Israel as a democratic and Jewish state. So you have to maintain a Jewish majority, and you want to do that by legal means, by democratic means.

You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybody's switching to a computer. And I'm sort of laughed at.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.

We have a legal immigration system that's outdated, it's primarily based on whether you have family members living here. In the 21st century, it has to be more of a merit-based system, and that is why our legal immigration system is in need of modernization.

I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.

We need to let the referee's sole thing be to protect the quarterback and get those late hits out of there. They even have a stat on television that says 'knockdowns.' Knockdowns means that you knock him down after he throws the ball. The assumption is, if it's legal, we'll make excuses for them.

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.

Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them.

If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.

No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.

Fundamentally, if you look at where the environmental issues are coming from, it's all because of humans and our impact on the environment, so while it's true that one individual is not going to sufficiently fix the environment, it is a necessary thing.

As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot.

There's a lionfish cookbook put out by the Reef Environmental Educational Foundation, and it tells you how to catch them, how to clean them.

I think that you form the way that you act from others around you it's a kind of an environmental thing.

Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed.

In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.

To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.

If we don't preserve the natural resources, you aren't going to have a sustainable society. This is not something for Chez Panisse and the elite of San Francisco. It's for everyone.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.

It's a social contract we make. We're willing to give up certain things. We give you the right to tax us. We give you the right to lock us up. We give you the right to put us on surveillance, search our homes, whatever and, in exchange, we get a functioning society that keeps us relatively safe, and that's the tradeoff we make.

Anytime you see somebody keeping a secret, that's symptomatic that something's wrong with the society around them. That means there's discrimination or worse.

A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.

When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking.

At least in Russia, you cannot just go and tap into someone's phone conversation without a warrant issued by court. That's more or less the way a civilized society should go about fighting terrorism.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster.

That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.

If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.

What is the future going to say about us now? What are our kids going to look at us and say, 'How could you not stop that person from getting into power? How could you not stop that environmental disaster that you saw coming a mile away?'

The worst environmental decision you can make as a human being is to have 14 kids.

Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs.

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems.